That's changing the goalposts a bit don't you think? Of course their features are similar; they're the same language and they're geographically close. But to try to lump Canadian English as American English is just not true. You may be able to place them on the same branch but they are distinct from one another (even one of the letters of the alphabet is pronounced differently). Especially considering the original remark was about the words "learnt and spelt" and how they're not going to be seen because they aren't used in American English but I use both of those in Canadian English. Especially spelt.
I most certainly do not. Although I am unaware if it should be "ize" in official Canadian English (tm). The Z looks off to me but the traditional convention has to do with whether or not it is Greek or Latin derived.
and "practice"
"Practice" is a noun whereas "practise" is a verb.
This all just shows more that you can't lump Canadian English with American. They are quite distinct.
Except Canada and the United States have distinct versions of English (Canada uses British spelling over American). You don't even get a homogenous concept of English across the United States let alone including Canada in that. So what exactly are we calling "American English" here?
And if you're weak enough to fall prey to taking your own life over a goddamn electronic vote, then maybe you shouldn't be playing in the deep end of social networking without your fucking swimmies on.
Children think that the school yard is their entire life (because at that point of their life it is their entire life). When they feel that everyone in their school hates them they get the very real feeling that their life is pointless. You are blaming infants that haven't had enough life to gain experience for being inexperienced.
Seems we have no problem handing our teenagers an unlimited portal to online hardcore porn via smartphones and not worry about that twisting their minds
I really have no idea how you have missed all the "porn on the internet is hurting our children" diatribe. All in all you're a pretty ignorant AC.
Wake up, unplug your orifices & read the reviews of devices like the Promise Thunderbolt RAID enclosure.
I'm sure they are plenty fast and great for some instances but they will never be as fast or as low cost as an internal solution. Being external they will always be vulnerable to accidental disconnects and jarring. Parroting that a thunderbolt RAID inclosure is a full replacement for an internal (much faster) controller is asinine.
As a nod to how wrong you are, instruct yourself on how Thunderbolt delivers DisplayPort to downstream devices. Hint: It's not competing with the data as you incorrectly indicate.
So they don't share the same bus and the same port? It doesn't have a measly three thunderbolt controllers and 6 ports to handle all of my storage and display needs? Even with daisy chaining that is a limited amount of bandwidth.
I am not saying thunderbolt is useless. What I am saying is I would expect a next-gen workstation to offer more power than a current-gen and this won't. And it certainly won't compete with next-gen workstations from other venders that are going to include PCIe 3.0 x16 slots. Especially once you factor in cost after buying all the overpriced external connectors.
Acting obnoxious doesn't change the fact that a removed feature is a removed feature.
I am not being obtuse. "It's just an X hundred dollar adapter" is not a valid response to everything (even if that is Apple Marketing's response to everything). An external solution is never going to be as fast or as cost efficient as an internal. So with this new plan I get to pay significantly more, get worse performance and all kinds of other issues that go along with external devices. Plus now my storage gets to compete for a connection port and bandwidth with my monitor (you don't really think 1 HDMI port is sufficient for a workstation do you?)
I'm not holding my breath over anything. I'm laughing at Apple trying to pass this impotent mac mini + off as a workstation.
1.7 is less than 4 so are you agreeing with me? Or are you saying that is bad and all operating systems should run in 512MB and totally ignore the remaining 4-16GB?
You want your OS to use as much memory as it can or as little as it has.
I was being facetious. Defending this machines lack of real storage solutions by suggesting external drives is absurd. Some people actually use and need a RAID controller (people often referred to as pros).
Thunderbolt and RAID are completely orthogonal technologies.
Exactly, which is why using thunderbolt in place of a real RAID controller in a "pro" machine is wholly inadequate. Almost as funny as proposing to use it in place of a high end graphics card but I lost count of how many times I read that very suggestion here.
Actually they don't own it, and admit they don't own it. They are not demanding money and are not restricting the work in any way. All that they want is to be able to say is: "I made this".
copyright is the law saying that someone else can't take it and take the credit
That's really not what copyright is at all. "Taking credit" for something not your own would probably be more covered under fraud laws. Copyright mostly concerns copying.
I don't really have anything better to use but I would warn you to stay as far away from jQuery Mobile as possible. Even the simple UI demos on their site are slow as hell on a desktop machine. That just screams 'stay away' to me. I was going to use it for a mobile project I was working on. Scrapped it within 2 hours and wrote my own (still using jQuery).
Nobody mentioned brand except you; not everything is Apple vs the world. Saving $100 on a 2 or 3 year contract is not a "cheaper alternative". It doesn't matter who made the phone.
I would agree with you that math is very important but I think it's more of a correlation than a causation. Programming does not require knowledge of advanced math but the thinking involved in both seems to be fairly similar.
The issue is why doesn't the programmer know the math? Are they not interested or is "math too hard". Any programmer that I have ever met that thought math was too hard never turned out to be much of a programmer. They seem to lack the abstract thinking ability needed for complex programming tasks. This is not the same as not bothering to learn the math simply due to lack of interest.
Learning how to think mathematically is also a great benefit for general programming. No matter how good of a programmer or computer scientist you are you will always be better with mathematics.
The point is math can be important to show you have the abstract thinking skills. It is definitely worth while taking it if you are going to be competing in the job market.
Was there a mention of iPhone anywhere in that post? Or do you just frame everything as Apple vs Everything Else? Signing a 2 year contract for anything is not a cheap alternative.
You have to get well above 20" before two side-by-side windows start to become feasible.
> 20" monitors have only become common in the last 5 or so years and you are completely overlooking laptops. I assure you people have been, and still do, use multiple windows on screens smaller than 20". Additionally, if 4" is big enough for an app then double that would be fine for two apps (barring pixel density issues).
So your Ubuntu laptop is better than a console because you can play ancient console games on it? And older PC titles? And that's what you want to play on your 70" television? Remember the bit about being an "improvement"?
It would be like installing/uninstalling an HD mod in realtime, pretty much, but only HD textures for, say, cloth textures, or whatever.
If the textures are too big to fit on a bluray disc then they are too big to transfer across the internet for every play on any North American internet connection.
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That's changing the goalposts a bit don't you think? Of course their features are similar; they're the same language and they're geographically close. But to try to lump Canadian English as American English is just not true. You may be able to place them on the same branch but they are distinct from one another (even one of the letters of the alphabet is pronounced differently). Especially considering the original remark was about the words "learnt and spelt" and how they're not going to be seen because they aren't used in American English but I use both of those in Canadian English. Especially spelt.
but they also write "normalize"
I most certainly do not. Although I am unaware if it should be "ize" in official Canadian English (tm). The Z looks off to me but the traditional convention has to do with whether or not it is Greek or Latin derived.
and "practice"
"Practice" is a noun whereas "practise" is a verb.
This all just shows more that you can't lump Canadian English with American. They are quite distinct.
Except Canada and the United States have distinct versions of English (Canada uses British spelling over American). You don't even get a homogenous concept of English across the United States let alone including Canada in that. So what exactly are we calling "American English" here?
And if you're weak enough to fall prey to taking your own life over a goddamn electronic vote, then maybe you shouldn't be playing in the deep end of social networking without your fucking swimmies on.
Children think that the school yard is their entire life (because at that point of their life it is their entire life). When they feel that everyone in their school hates them they get the very real feeling that their life is pointless. You are blaming infants that haven't had enough life to gain experience for being inexperienced.
Seems we have no problem handing our teenagers an unlimited portal to online hardcore porn via smartphones and not worry about that twisting their minds
I really have no idea how you have missed all the "porn on the internet is hurting our children" diatribe. All in all you're a pretty ignorant AC.
Wake up, unplug your orifices & read the reviews of devices like the Promise Thunderbolt RAID enclosure.
I'm sure they are plenty fast and great for some instances but they will never be as fast or as low cost as an internal solution. Being external they will always be vulnerable to accidental disconnects and jarring. Parroting that a thunderbolt RAID inclosure is a full replacement for an internal (much faster) controller is asinine.
As a nod to how wrong you are, instruct yourself on how Thunderbolt delivers DisplayPort to downstream devices. Hint: It's not competing with the data as you incorrectly indicate.
So they don't share the same bus and the same port? It doesn't have a measly three thunderbolt controllers and 6 ports to handle all of my storage and display needs? Even with daisy chaining that is a limited amount of bandwidth.
I am not saying thunderbolt is useless. What I am saying is I would expect a next-gen workstation to offer more power than a current-gen and this won't. And it certainly won't compete with next-gen workstations from other venders that are going to include PCIe 3.0 x16 slots. Especially once you factor in cost after buying all the overpriced external connectors.
Acting obnoxious doesn't change the fact that a removed feature is a removed feature.
I am not being obtuse. "It's just an X hundred dollar adapter" is not a valid response to everything (even if that is Apple Marketing's response to everything). An external solution is never going to be as fast or as cost efficient as an internal. So with this new plan I get to pay significantly more, get worse performance and all kinds of other issues that go along with external devices. Plus now my storage gets to compete for a connection port and bandwidth with my monitor (you don't really think 1 HDMI port is sufficient for a workstation do you?)
I'm not holding my breath over anything. I'm laughing at Apple trying to pass this impotent mac mini + off as a workstation.
1.7 is less than 4 so are you agreeing with me? Or are you saying that is bad and all operating systems should run in 512MB and totally ignore the remaining 4-16GB?
You want your OS to use as much memory as it can or as little as it has.
I was being facetious. Defending this machines lack of real storage solutions by suggesting external drives is absurd. Some people actually use and need a RAID controller (people often referred to as pros).
Thunderbolt and RAID are completely orthogonal technologies.
Exactly, which is why using thunderbolt in place of a real RAID controller in a "pro" machine is wholly inadequate. Almost as funny as proposing to use it in place of a high end graphics card but I lost count of how many times I read that very suggestion here.
while Windows 7/8 struggles.
While Win7x64 might struggle on less than 1 gig of RAM I can assure you it is quite happy with 4.
RAID is dead Thunderbolt reigns supreme. You heard it here first folks.
If they ran the same CPUs and didn't have other bandwidth constraints than yes that would be the case.
Let me guess: you think the CPU in the Mac will be magically faster than the CPU in every other workstation because they're in a Mac.
You realize this Mac "Pro" isn't a supercomputer right?
Actually they don't own it, and admit they don't own it. They are not demanding money and are not restricting the work in any way. All that they want is to be able to say is: "I made this".
copyright is the law saying that someone else can't take it and take the credit
That's really not what copyright is at all. "Taking credit" for something not your own would probably be more covered under fraud laws. Copyright mostly concerns copying.
Nice, the "you're holding it wrong" defense.
I don't really have anything better to use but I would warn you to stay as far away from jQuery Mobile as possible. Even the simple UI demos on their site are slow as hell on a desktop machine. That just screams 'stay away' to me. I was going to use it for a mobile project I was working on. Scrapped it within 2 hours and wrote my own (still using jQuery).
And I am CONSTANTLY reading in the news about boys gang-raping girls, and drugging and raping them
That definitely never happened in the past. The days before pornography were rape-free utopias where women were considered completely equal to men.
maybe because it gets boys thinking that girls are just sex objects and not people
And the show Will and Grace makes boys gay too, right?
Nobody mentioned brand except you; not everything is Apple vs the world. Saving $100 on a 2 or 3 year contract is not a "cheaper alternative". It doesn't matter who made the phone.
I would agree with you that math is very important but I think it's more of a correlation than a causation. Programming does not require knowledge of advanced math but the thinking involved in both seems to be fairly similar.
The issue is why doesn't the programmer know the math? Are they not interested or is "math too hard". Any programmer that I have ever met that thought math was too hard never turned out to be much of a programmer. They seem to lack the abstract thinking ability needed for complex programming tasks. This is not the same as not bothering to learn the math simply due to lack of interest.
Learning how to think mathematically is also a great benefit for general programming. No matter how good of a programmer or computer scientist you are you will always be better with mathematics.
The point is math can be important to show you have the abstract thinking skills. It is definitely worth while taking it if you are going to be competing in the job market.
Was there a mention of iPhone anywhere in that post? Or do you just frame everything as Apple vs Everything Else? Signing a 2 year contract for anything is not a cheap alternative.
The device also has to be usable, and so far Android's reputation on this area is pretty bad
Maybe if you keep repeating this over and over again reality might bend to your delusional view of it.
You have to get well above 20" before two side-by-side windows start to become feasible.
> 20" monitors have only become common in the last 5 or so years and you are completely overlooking laptops. I assure you people have been, and still do, use multiple windows on screens smaller than 20". Additionally, if 4" is big enough for an app then double that would be fine for two apps (barring pixel density issues).
Yeah, because I never have to restart my Windows machine.
Well if the criteria is "I can do whatever I want whenever I want" I would think readability would be impacted without a lot of care.
So your Ubuntu laptop is better than a console because you can play ancient console games on it? And older PC titles? And that's what you want to play on your 70" television? Remember the bit about being an "improvement"?
It would be like installing/uninstalling an HD mod in realtime, pretty much, but only HD textures for, say, cloth textures, or whatever.
If the textures are too big to fit on a bluray disc then they are too big to transfer across the internet for every play on any North American internet connection.